Dominating every other priority of the environmental movement is the
drive to destroy the concept of private property. Those who seek to rule
and regulate your every action know that, without the right to own and
control property, there can be no economy, no rule of law. A capitalist
system ceases to exist without property rights and, without this fulcrum,
no other rights are possible. If you cannot own property, you become the
property of the State.

One doesn't take the greatest industrial society on earth and turn it
into a collectivist gulag overnight. For this deception to succeed, the
perpetrators must first secure the sanction of the victim. They need you
to voluntarily give up your property, your wealth, and your liberty.

From the beginning the Greens' adherence to the ideals of Marxism-Leninism
had to be hidden. Instead, they needed something else. The threat of danger
is a good tool. The greater the threat, the less the objection to giving
up one's liberty. World-wide environmental Armageddon became the instrument
of choice.

The Greens, having spent the 1970's warning against a new Ice Age, reversed
themselves and conjured up the threat of Global Warming that would melt
the polar ice caps and flood the world. We were told we use "too
much" energy.

We had to learn to "conserve." Industry, in many cases, accepted
regulations that forced it to spend billions creating and installing new
technologies to counter the "threat."

Faced with the unfounded charge that countless species were supposedly
vanishing, the alarmed public supported regulations that shut down timber
and mining enterprises. Ozone holes, acid rain, dolphin-safe fishing became
the mantra, all driven by a hysteria plotted at the level of twelve-year-old
girls in a pet shop pleading with the shop owner to "let the poor
little animals out!"

As the propaganda mill poured out one unsubstantiated horror story after
another, science was bastardized to fit the political agenda. Reason and
truth weren't necessary. And now the hysteria over unsubstantiated environmental
disaster has grown so strong the stage has been set for international
forces to step in via the United Nations. Sovereign nations, they say,
can't be trusted to take care of these problems on their own.

Babbitt: reborn as 60s radical

The hysteria created by bogus science has been sold to this nation using
all of the outlets manned by the once youthful revolutionaries of the
1960's. Recently the former Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt,
called for a return to 1960's student activism. "We have to awaken
the government," said Babbitt, criticizing the Bush Administration.
For eight years during the Clinton Administration a war was waged from
the highest levels of government against property rights.

The green agenda has invaded every aspect of our society. The implementation
of the new driving force of the environmental agenda called "Sustainable
Development" involves every agency of the Federal Government, and
is seeping into state and local agencies. It affects how our housing is
built, what crops to grow, the foods we eat, the medicines we can take,
and the industries that can and cannot survive. It's in our schools, in
our workplaces, and in our social gatherings.

The Green agenda is the culmination of the agenda first devised in the
streets of the 1960's by youthful revolutionaries. Today, we continue
to risk granting them the sanction of their victims.

Tom DeWeese, editor of The DeWeese Report and president of the American
Policy Center, is a frequent contributor. The Center maintains an Internet
site at www.americanpolicy.org.

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